Oct. 23, 2024 | Ethan Simmons The Warrior-Scholar Project partners with American colleges and universities to host brief, intensive, no-cost college prep experiences for both enlisted Veterans and service members transitioning into civilian life For Chez Veterans Center director of operations Andy Bender, the function of the Warrior-Scholar Project is straightforward: Offer military Veterans a […]
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Chez plays host to Warrior-Scholar Project for second year
July 10, 2023 | Ethan Simmons Chez again hosts two‑week Warrior‑Scholar Project boot camp for veterans For Chez Veterans Center director of operations Andy Bender, the function of the Warrior-Scholar Project is straightforward: Offer military Veterans a two-week-long academic “boot camp” to reacquaint themselves with the classroom environment before heading to a college or university. […]
Warrior-Scholar Project shows Veterans college is within reach
Aug. 08, 2022 | Vince Lara-Cinisomo Chez Veterans Center hosts program to give service members a bridge from the battlefield to the classroom For Tizoc Rubio, the prospect of college seemed far-fetched. Then he happened upon the Warrior-Scholar Project. “When you’re enlisted, you’re kind of bottom of the barrel. And you’re of that mindset that […]
Chez Center hosts program to ready veterans for higher ed
Aug. 1, 2024 | Ethan Simmons While Adam Sherman Jr. sat for the two-hour bus ride from Chicago O’Hare Airport to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, a pit was forming in his stomach. He’d spent six years in the Navy, stationed in Japan and California for three years apiece, sometimes working out at sea […]